Garden implement



C. CRISMAN.

yGARDEN IMPLEMENT- APPLlc/lon FILED APR. 17. 1919.

Patented oen 26,1920.

ICE.

""'CALEB 'CRISI/IAN, oF CHICAGO, Innrlvors 'GARDEN IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oet. 26, 1920.

Application led April 17, 1919.y Serial No. `290,746.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CALEB CRISMN, a

citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chi-y various uses or in positions where an implementnot possessing such adjustable features would not be available. f

To this end it consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination' of parts herein shown and described, and morev particularly pointed out'in the claim.

In the drawings, wherein like `reference characters indicate like or corresponding parts,

j Figure 1 is a perspective view of my imp'rovement as adapted to a garden or hayk rake; Y

Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofthe end of the implement, clearly showing the head of the rake; and Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the implement partly in section'on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. f

In the drawings, 1 represents the handle of an ordinary garden implement' provided at its end with a head 2. This headon each side of its center is provided with an adjusting slot 3. These slots are curved, as

indicated, and extend generally in the same pivotally supported on the head preferably at a central point, as `at 5,*and adapted to extend transversely to the handle head.

Bolts 6 6 carried bythe arms 4 extend upwardly throughthe slots 3 and are provided withnuts 7 7, which are preferably thumb nuts. By this means, upon loosening the nuts, the arms 4 may be `adjusted on the pivotal center 5, or on an equivalent support, so that they may be caused to extend in any desired adjusted position within the limits structed, and adjustable to be adapted to` if desired. l

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direction as the handle. 4 4; are rake arms of the device. When adjusted to such position, the thumb nuts may be-again tightened, maintaining the parts in rigid position in operation. By this means the aggregate lwidth of the rake may be modified substantially as desired, so that `it may be usedbetween plants arranged in rows. Thus, as shown in dotted lines 8 8, the rake would be narrowed toa considerable extent. The

slots may be carried forward as far as may be, even to the point where the Atwo arms would liesubstantially side by side. In the preferred construction, the slots at the handleend are extended well upward, so that the arms, as at dotted lines 9 9, may be extendedA forward to secure a gathering effect, and at `the same time narrow the rake also f' K It is obvious that the arms need not be mounted upon acommon center, solongas the radiusfrom the center to the slot is sufiyV n' cient to ermit the adjusting feature-menslots as indicated, and is the preferred construction.

While I haveshownmy-device as applied' to a rake, it is obviousthat it may be applied to other implements as may be found desirable; hence I do not wish to be understood as limiting my invention to the exact form of construction shown. c

' Having. thus described my invention, what I claim as 'new' and desire to secure by Letters Patent is n the form shown, the center 5 is i .used as a center with a radius 'to form the An implement of the character described having a relatively wide segmental shaped head of a flat formation along its under side, andfprovided with an extended handle re ceiving portionprojecting from the head,

and a handle adapted `tobe attached to said i handle receiving portion, said segmental head having arcuate slots therein near the outer edges of the khead spaced from each other, of a pair of` rake arms, each having an end reduced in thickness, and means cooperating withV the head for pivotally supporting the rake arms for independent ad justment comprising a single pivot pin passing through each of the overlapped reduced ends ofthe arms for holding said arms ink contact with the at surface of the head, In testimony whereof I have hereunto bolts passing through openings in each of signed my name in the presence of two subthe arms, and disposed Within the larcuate scribing Witnesses.

' Y CALEB VCRISMAN.

slots in the head and adjustingnuts coper- 5 ating with the bolts and the outer 4surface' VVitnesses:V Y

of the head for maintaining the arms in Y A, f JOHN W. HILL, their separate adjusted postons. n ,n CHARLES 1, COBB. 

